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UBER-STYLE work practices are creeping into the wider economy, warns a new report published today.
The Scottish TUC has said the automation of jobs must be controlled by workers — or it will risks empowering bosses and damaging the economy.
The report, jointly published by the STUC and the Scottish government, says “gig economy” employers have caused an “over-reliance on forms of self-employment” that deny workers holidays, guaranteed hours and rights.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP